Miguel Angel Pichetto

Miguel Angel Pichetto (24 October 1950-) was an Argentine Justicialist Party politican who served as Mayor of Sierra Grande from 1985 to 1987, a Rio Negro provincial deputy from 1987 to 1993, a national deputy from Rio Negro from 1993 to 2001, and a Senator from 2001 to 2019.

Biography
Miguel Angel Pichetto was born in Banfield, Buenos Aires, Argentina on 24 October 1950, and he became a lawyer at the age of 26 and settled in Sierra Grande, Province of Rio Negro. He served as Mayor of Sierra Grande from 1985 to 1987, as a Rio Negro provincial deputy from 1987 to 1993, as a national deputy from Rio Negro from 1993 to 2001, and as a Senator from 2001 to 2019. He was affiliated with the conservative Federal Peronism faction of the Justicialist Party, and he was controversial for his xenophobic (making distinctions between Argentine Jews and "Argentinian Argentines", discriminating against immigrants from Bolivia and Peru, and making a misogynistic joke in 2017). He left office as Senator in 2019.